PayPal
Senior Lead Product Manager, Risk Decisioning Platform
$178K–$334K
San Jose, California, United States of America +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, United States of America
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 8+ years relevant experience; minimum qualifications also allow any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- A Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Leads product strategy and execution for a risk domain within PayPal’s Risk Decisioning Platform, moving strategies from legacy systems into production and optimizing them through experimentation and automation.
What you'll do
- Set the risk domain’s multi-year vision and product roadmap with risk strategy leaders, balancing business outcomes and customer experience.
- Lead cross-functional teams through platform transitions, strategy launches, controlled rollouts, and ongoing optimization; track business outcomes.
- Represent the domain to executives, establish execution and review mechanisms, and mentor product managers.
What they ask for
- Significant product-building experience in fraud, account integrity, credit, or another risk domain, partnering closely with risk strategy leaders.
- Deep knowledge of risk decisioning and tuning, including rules, ML models, features, step-up and friction treatments, and loss/customer-experience tradeoffs.
- Strong quantitative skills with risk metrics and ability to connect product changes to business impact.
- Ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive milestone-based delivery across many teams.
Nice to have
- Experience launching through controlled rollouts and experimentation, including champion/challenger tests and staged traffic ramps.
- Experience leading platform migrations from legacy risk systems while protecting performance.
Pay
San Jose, California: $196,500 - $333,500 Annually (base salary); Austin, Texas: $178,500 - $303,500 Annually (base salary); Chicago, Illinois: $178,500 - $303,500 Annually (base salary)
Tools
rules, ML models
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